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Renesas Electronics

Automotive-focused MCUs, SoCs, analog devices

Manager Demand & Starts Planning

Supply Chain ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeDresden, GermanyNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, or a comparable field.
  • At least 8–10 years of experience in supply chain or production planning.
  • At least 3–5 years of experience leading international teams.
  • Experience in the semiconductor industry, including foundry, wafer fab, assembly/test, or operations planning.
  • Demonstrated experience in demand planning and supply planning.
  • Experience managing global and virtual teams.
  • Knowledge of Sales and Operations Planning and Integrated Business Planning processes.
  • Knowledge of demand planning, master production scheduling, wafer starts planning, capacity planning, inventory management, semiconductor supply chain, forecast analytics, risk management, and scenario planning.
  • Experience with Kinaxis RapidResponse, SAP ERP, SAP IBP, advanced Excel, and Power BI.
  • Strong leadership skills, ability to lead teams through change, and ability to develop and coach talent.
  • Excellent communication skills in German and English, ability to present at executive level, and intercultural competence.
  • Analytical, data-driven, proactive, structured, and accountable working style; assertive and decisive, resilient, and able to act as a strong business partner to management and business units.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Front-End Planning team, focusing on demand planning, wafer starts planning, and integrated die planning.
  • Translate customer demand into reliable production and wafer-start plans and serve as a central interface between business units, supply planning, operations, manufacturing, and executive management.
  • Own the end-to-end demand planning process across multiple business divisions.
  • Consolidate customer demand, forecasts, and business requirements.
  • Ensure reliable demand-signal quality across the supply chain.
  • Conduct demand reviews with business units and sales organizations.
  • Identify demand risks and escalate capacity bottlenecks.
  • Own wafer starts planning across internal and external foundries.
  • Translate demand and supply signals into wafer-start plans.
  • Balance service levels, inventory, and capacity utilization.
  • Own the Integrated Die Plan and conduct scenario analyses for demand, capacity, and supply changes.
  • Build and lead a global Demand & Starts Planning team; coach and develop team members; define roles, responsibilities, and planning standards.
  • Work closely with business units, operations planning, OSAT planning, supply planning, manufacturing, finance, sales, and marketing.
  • Lead regular demand and supply review processes and manage critical escalations.
  • Further develop planning processes as part of the ONE Renesas transformation.
  • Use and optimize Rapid Response and other planning tools; promote standardization, digitization, and automation.
  • Define relevant key performance indicators and management dashboards.

About the Company

Renesas Electronics

Automotive-focused MCUs, SoCs, analog devices

Renesas manufactures and sells MCUs, SoCs, and analog/power semiconductor devices to OEMs, focusing on automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT markets. Its chips are building blocks that run embedded software and manage power and signals, and its Winning Combinations offer pre-tested system architectures to speed up design. It differentiates itself by growing through acquisitions to offer a broad, integrated portfolio and by moving toward a unified digital design platform to reduce integration work. Its goal is to become a leading supplier of these components and provide a single platform for electronics design that speeds time-to-market.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Founded
2002

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